Elon Musk on Hacking, Autopilot Crash Responsibilities, AI companies

But if it's on autopilot and the driver says, hey, you know, this was supposed to change lanes for me and instead it hit this barrier, I want, you know, I want Tesla to be responsible for this

Yeah, I think we're going to be quite clear with customers that the responsibility remains with the driver

We're not asserting that the car is capable of driving in the absence of driver oversight

That will be the case at some point in the future, like maybe five or six years from now

I think we'll be able to achieve true autonomous driving where you could literally get in the car, go to sleep, and wake up at your destination

A couple of years ago I thought it was more like ten years, but based on the rate of improvement that I'm seeing and the progress we're making

I think we'll probably be able to do it in five or six years. And the standard for fully autonomous driving is going to be much greater than for a person. Right

Because if it's just equivalent, that wouldn't be enough. that wouldn't be enough. But in order to do that, you have to have fully redundant systems

Everything's got to be redundant so that any one system breaking does not result in an accident

And you also have to prove that out over millions of miles of driving

It's a lot like a cell phone or a laptop. You focus on making sure that it's very difficult for them to be any kind of system-wide hack

So we've put a lot of effort into that and we have third parties try to attack it

and in certain parts of the car at the very fundamental level

like the drive unit controller or the steering controller, have an additional level of security

I've invested in some AI companies like DeepMind and Vicarious. Yeah. Why

I invested in those companies to keep an eye on them. I wanted to see how artificial intelligence was developing